[A skull of Mesopithecus with bite marks (author's transl)].
A skull of Mesopithecus pentelicus (Roth and Wagner) from the Turolian (Upper Miocene) of Pikermi (Greece) shows hole-shaped bitemarks. Considering the behavior and the character of the dentition of the groups of carnivores represented in Pikermi, it is supposed that these bitemarks have been caused by a felid of the size of a leopard. In the fauna of Pikermi only Metailurus parvulus (Hensel) can be taken into consideration. By the defects on a skull of a juvenile Australopithecine, interpreted by Brain in 1970 as bitemarks of a leopard, the above explanation gets a very essential support.
D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings; D002335:Carnivora; D005580:Fossils; D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D000882:Haplorhini / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D010163:Paleontology; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000293:injuries*
Ein Schädel von Mesopithecus mit Biss-Spuren.